Mother Mary said at Fatima: "My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge and the sure way which will lead you to God." St. Thomas Aquinas said: "The things we love tell us who we are!" With that in mind, I will try to post each day something about Our Blessed Lady, items about the Holy Roman Catholic Church, and public domain Catholic books too! I pray you enjoy my ministry!
Below are two albums of pictures that I created:
1. Our grand daughter Adrianna.
2. Tears of Mary!

MARY, OUR MOTHER

Saturday, September 28, 2013

Mary TV Daily Reflection 9/29/2013

Fall in love with Jesus and Mary!

(c)Mary TV 2013

J.M.J.

September 29, 2013

Dear Family of Mary!

"Dear children! Also
today I call you to prayer. May your relationship with prayer be a
daily one. Prayer works miracles in you and through you, therefore,
little children, may prayer be a joy for you. Then your relationship
with life will be deeper and more open and you will comprehend that life
is a gift for each of you. Thank you for having responded to my call."(September 25, 2013)

Denis and I and our team
have been very busy in these first days in Medjugorje! The team was able
to redesign the studio, moving the equipment and setting up everything
in time for the Daily Rosary. It was great! Denis and I are very moved
to pray here in Medjugorje with our dear friends from around the world.
Each day so far, we have been joined in the studio by pilgrims who are
"in the boat!" and pray with us at home! It is an incredible joy to meet
here in Medjugorje with all of you!!

Another blessing was that
during our Rosary today, Marija was giving a talk at the Church! We are
so close that we could hear her from the studio! And KiKi filmed her
talk, and brought it back in time for us to stream it directly after the
Rosary today!! Wow! This is incredible!!! (Marija's talk is at the end
of Saturday's Rosary -9/28/13)

I have begun to transcribe Marija's talk, and here is the first part. Enjoy!!!

Marija gave a talk at the back of church on September 28, 2013 and filmed by Mary TV:

I would
like to in a special way, to invite you all to be closer to Our Lady
through this testimony I would like to give. I would love you to fall in
love with Our Lady as we fell in love with Our Lady when we started in
the first days of Our Lady's apparitions. We tried to put into practice
what Our Lady asked of us. We fell in love with her and we started
following her messages. Then, step by step, what Our Lady was saying
became a joy for us. We started living with joy what she was asking of
us. In the beginning we had difficulties doing it. I have to admit that
at the beginning we were not that used to prayer. But then, step by
step, as we fell in love with Our Lady, we started following her
directions.

As Our Lady
was in love with Jesus, she expected us to fall in love with him, and
we started praying and contemplating His beauty. And together with Our
Lady we started becoming closer to Jesus every day. Our Lady allowed us
to fall in love.

At the
beginning we said that we were not worthy. But step by step, she said
that God was allowing her to be present in our midst. And she said that
it was a gift that she was able to choose and invite us to be her
instruments. We started feeling important in her eyes. We started
feeling the joy of God. God was not far away, not up there in the
clouds, but we felt the God who is close to us. And that was the joy of
God.

We started
to pray with the heart as she has invited us. And to pray with the heart
was something that Our Lady, with all of her heart, asked of us. She
was inviting us all the time to more and more fall in love with God and
to be in love with the Church, and to pray until God would increase our
faith.

Our Lady
said to us that Faith is a gift. And we started, step by step, slowly to
live that gift. And we started living Our Lady's every day presence
here. We began with every day a lot of fear. Fear of not being worthy.
But at the same time, this was a communist country that we lived in and
there was also fear that we could die. But then, step by step, Our Lady
was strengthening us with prayer and her presence and her peace, as she
introduced herself as the Queen of Peace.

And Our
Lady today says to us that we have to be carriers of that peace with our
life and with our prayer. Our Lady invites us that each one of us
should make a decision for prayer through the daily personal conversion.
God in thousands of ways gives us signs that tell us "convert". Put God
in the first place in your life. Without God you do not have a future.
And you do not have eternal life. That is why she is inviting us to
abandon and leave behind the things of the world. She has been inviting
us to think about God. Try to find a balance between the material and
spiritual life, because now a days, between materialism, consumerism and
different ideologies, we are distancing ourselves from God. Our Lady
invites us to return to God, to return to the simplicity of our everyday
life.

In a
special way Our Lady has been inviting us to put God in the first place
in our life. Pray every day. And we started together with our Lady to
pray and to learn how to pray. At the beginning the Creed, 7 Our
Father's, 7 Hail Mary's, and 7 Glory Be's, the 7 as we call it, is the
prayer that we say here every day, at the Church of Medjugorje, in the
evening at the end of Holy Mass. We say the prayer of 7 Our Father's, 7
Hail Mary's, and 7 Glory Be's, and we say it on our knees. We say it as a
sign of thanksgiving to the Mother of God for her presence here in our
midst.

But Our
Lady asks us for more. She invites us to more. We said that we would
love to be even more in love with her and then Our Lady told us what to
do: "Pray the Rosary, because at the moment when you pray the Rosary
your heart is being opened, and I can intercede for you before my son so
that He may give you graces you are praying for." Our Lady started
inviting us to form prayer groups in our homes, in our families and in
our parishes. We can help one another in the journey of our spiritual
growth. There we can share our spiritual experiences and help one
another. And she invited us to choose a spiritual guide, a priest who
will be your spiritual guide. Who would be able to help you every day to
know how to go forward.

Our Lady
said to us that with prayer and fasting even wars can be stopped. And
this is what we experienced, we prayed and we fasted and we could see
the power of prayer and the power of fasting. As it is written in the
Sacred Scripture that certain evil spirits can only be cast out through
prayer and fasting, Our Lady said that good exists but also evil exists.
And Our Lady says that Satan does not only destroy our lives, but also
the planet on which we live. That is why Our Lady invites us to fast and
pray. We can fast in different ways. Kids can fast by giving up candies
or ice cream when it is hot. Our Maybe some games, because sometimes
they become dependent on those games. Even us, there are so many things
that we are attached to. And we are attacked by things from this
material world that enslave us. Our Lady invites us to fast so that we
could reach the level (which Our Lady invites us to) of fasting on bread
and water. If it is possible on those days that we pray in silence and
we fast until the Lord starts speaking within us.

These days
we have experienced the power of fasting and prayer. In a special way,
Pope Francis to fast and to pray, and the entire church was united in
this when we were praying for the grace of peace in Syria. And thanks be
to God we see through the politicians and in who knows what ways, God
heard our prayers. For sure God will hear our everyday prayer in which
we pray for little things in our lives. There are many times when there
is a war in the family. Maybe in your own heart you do not have peace.
When we Christians do not hear, we are far from God and the Sacraments.
Our Lady invites us to return to God. Without God we do not have God or
eternal life. (Marija Pavlovic-Lunetti - speaking in Medjugorje 09/28/13)

Marjia talks an awful lot
about falling in love with Our Lady. And I think that is the key to
everything. The visionaries have encountered Our Lady on a daily basis,
and they have really gotten to know her. They are now completely in love
with her. And so their lives are centered completely on living in that
love. This is what Our Lady wants to give us as well. She wants us to
learn to love her, so that in that love we can live with her the love
she has for God. We will be drawn into her love and that love will
direct us to God.

So, for now, I leave you with that one idea. Fall in love with Our Lady. That is the key!

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Mother Mary said at Fatima: "My Immaculate Heart will be your refuge and the sure way which will lead you to God." With that in mind, I will try to post each day something about Our Blessed Lady, items about the Holy Roman Catholic Church, and public domain Catholic books too! I pray you enjoy my ministry!Below is a slide show of pictures that I have collected: Tears of Mary!

Have a look!

Jeremiah 14:17; 15:18

"Let my eyes shed down tears night and day, and let them not cease, because the Virgin daughter of my people is afflicted with an exceedingly grievous evil. / Why is my sorrow become perpetual, and my wound desperate so as to refuse to be healed?"

Ubi Petrus, ibi ecclesia, et ubi ecclesia vita eterna

Where Peter is, there is the Church, where the Church is there is Eternal Life

About Me

I'm 80, formally married to Marianne for 52 years, [Marianne passed away to the Lord on August 9th, 2013 after suffering a stroke and two cardiac arrests.] We have 4 children (plus 2 in heaven-stillborn) and nine grandchildren plus 1 Step-grandchild. I'm a Korean War Vet, U.S. Navy; I was a Motorcycle News Courier for U.P.I., and WNEW Chanel 5 TV News, during 60's & 70's; a Lieutenant in the Wycoff Hospital Police in the 90's. I was ordained a Permanent Deacon for the Brooklyn Diocese on April 25, 1987 and served in four parishes before relocating to Florida in 2002. I'm still incardinated for Brooklyn Diocese. There was no parish in my town so we traveled to either Mt. Dora or Eustis for Mass. My oldest son and daughter, John and Anne, lived near us but the rest of the gang are up North in New York and Pennsylvania. We have now relocated to a northern state and my ministry is mostly on the Internet with some blogs and groups. I also assist the pastor at the local Catholic church. I owe my life and conversion/calling to Our Lady of Mt. Carmel de Garabandal, who has brought me to her Son Jesus. I am Their servant and slave! I only want to do the Will of God and glorify the Most Blessed Trinity with my life!

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PSALM 71 SPEAKS TO MY HEART

Forsake Me Not When My Strength Is Spent

In you, O Lord, do I take refuge;let me never be put to shame!In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me;incline your ear to me, and save me!

Be to me a rock of refuge,to which I may continually come;you have given the command to save me,for you are my rock and my fortress.

Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked,from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man.For you, O Lord, are my hope,my trust, O Lord, from my youth.Upon you I have leaned from before my birth;you are he who took me from my mother's womb.My praise is continually of you.

I have been as a portent to many,but you are my strong refuge.My mouth is filled with your praise,and with your glory all the day.Do not cast me off in the time of old age;forsake me not when my strength is spent.

For my enemies speak concerning me;those who watch for my life consult togetherand say, “God has forsaken him;pursue and seize him,for there is none to deliver him.”

O God, be not far from me;O my God, make haste to help me!May my accusers be put to shame and consumed;with scorn and disgrace may they be coveredwho seek my hurt.

But I will hope continuallyand will praise you yet more and more.My mouth will tell of your righteous acts,of your deeds of salvation all the day,for their number is past my knowledge.

With the mighty deeds of the Lord God I will come;I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone.

O God, from my youth you have taught me,and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.

So even to old age and gray hairs,O God, do not forsake me,until I proclaim your might to another generation,your power to all those to come.Your righteousness, O God,reaches the high heavens.You who have done great things,O God, who is like you?

You who have made me see many troubles and calamitieswill revive me again;from the depths of the earthyou will bring me up again.You will increase my greatnessand comfort me again.

I will also praise you with the harpfor your faithfulness, O my God;I will sing praises to you with the lyre,O Holy One of Israel.My lips will shout for joy,when I sing praises to you;my soul also, which you have redeemed.

And my tongue will talk of your righteous help all the day long, for they have been put to shame and disappointedwho sought to do me hurt.

Welcome to my Marian Blog

As you can tell from my postings, I'm in love with Mother Mary, who has taken me under her mantle of protection, has taught and led me to Her Divine Son, Jesus; Who in turn has led me, in the Holy Spirit, to the Eternal Father! Two prayers that I say often tell who I am:Come O Holy Spirit; Come by means of the powerful intercession of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Your well-beloved Spouse.

O Most Holy Trinity, I adore Thee. My God, my God, I love Thee in the Most Blessed Sacrament.